Qantas thinks long-range with long-awaited 787 order Confirmation Qantas has signed on the dotted line for the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has raised, not for the first time, the prospects of a nonstop Sydney-New York service. The first of eight 787-9s with a white kangaroo on the red Qantas tail is due to arrive in the

Joyce pilots Qantas’s revival Running an international airline means spending a lot of time at or close to 40,000 feet. For Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, that represents a chance to talk to staff at the front line, those dealing with the day-to-day issues of keeping the flights on time, keeping the customers happy and,

Qantas’s Perth lounge is the latest weapon in the arms race…but who’s actually the target? Qantas’s new Perth domestic Business Lounge – for business class passengers and Platinum frequent flyers – is more than just a new facility for Perth travellers: it “sets the new benchmark in business travel and represents the future of the

A new aircraft type offers new cheer for airline pilots The recent Qantas profit announcement was met with cheers from many quarters. The Flying Kangaroo had bounded back into the black and everyone from investors to staff were smiling. Undoubtedly, there were particularly broad grins on some of the flightdecks with news of the first